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DevOps Engineer (CI/CD) (Intern)

About The Role

  • We're looking for a DevOps Engineering Intern who wants to improve how systems are built, tested, and shipped—not just maintain pipelines.
  • You'll work on CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, release automation, and developer tooling in a fast-moving environment where systems and workflows evolve constantly. This means building reliable pipelines, improving deployment safety, and enabling engineers to move faster without breaking things.
  • You'll collaborate closely with founders and engineers to shape how software is delivered in production. Your work will directly impact developer velocity, system reliability, and release confidence.
  • If you enjoy automating workflows, fixing bottlenecks, and improving how teams ship software, this role will push you to grow quickly.

What You Will Do

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI)
  • Manage build, test, and release workflows across services
  • Work with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform or Pulumi)
  • Improve Docker-based build and deployment processes
  • Implement safe rollout strategies (canary, blue-green, feature flags)
  • Integrate quality, security, and observability checks into pipelines
  • Build internal tools to improve developer productivity
  • Document pipelines, environments, and operational runbooks

What We're Looking For

  • Familiarity with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
  • Basic understanding of Docker and container workflows
  • Exposure to infrastructure-as-code concepts (Terraform or Pulumi)
  • Understanding of Git workflows and release practices
  • Interest in improving developer experience and automation
  • Ability to operate in fast-changing, ambiguous environments

Founding Mindset

  • You think in terms of user-perceived reliability, not just dashboards
  • You ask 'what does good reliability look like' before adding metrics
  • You take ownership of uptime and graceful degradation
  • You balance speed of change with system stability
  • You proactively identify reliability gaps before they cause incidents

Bonus

  • Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
  • Exposure to incident management or on-call workflows
  • Experience with resilience testing or chaos engineering
  • Familiarity with tracing and structured logging

What Success Looks Like

Within 4–6 weeks, you should be able to:

  • Own monitoring and alerting for a subset of services
  • Reduce noisy alerts and improve signal quality
  • Contribute to incident retrospectives with actionable insights
  • Improve reliability, visibility, or response time in a measurable way

What You'll Get

  • Hands-on experience building reliability practices from the ground up
  • Direct collaboration with founders and core engineering teams
  • Real ownership beyond a typical SRE internship
  • A portfolio of dashboards, runbooks, and system improvements
  • A strong pathway into SRE, platform, or production engineering roles

Who This Is Not For

  • If you want predictable systems with no incidents to handle
  • If you avoid ambiguity or cross-team problem solving
  • If you prefer rigid, siloed environments with predefined processes

Who Will Thrive Here

  • Builders who want to actively own system reliability
  • Engineers who think in terms of end-to-end systems
  • Calm debuggers of intermittent and complex failures
  • High-agency individuals who care about keeping systems running reliably

About The Company

We're building the speech intelligence layer for Southeast Asia—turning real-world, accented, code-switched speech into structured, usable outputs for businesses.

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